Tag: HSPT

• The Nitty Gritty of Grammar

  My eighth grade students took an English quiz on Friday. This came after a solid week of “reviewing” the basic rules of punctuation and capitalization: the comma, the period, the colon, the semicolon, the exclamation point, the question mark, the dash and the hyphen, and when to use quotation marks and italics. All of these…

  michardillo

  October 25, 2015

  Essay

  comma, eighth grade, English, exclamation point, foreign language, grammar, HSPT, italics, middle school, period, professional development, punctuation, question mark, quotation marks, semicolon, teacher